National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
This study focused on establishing the presence of Campylobacter at the farm and retail level and evaluated the antibiogram profile of isolated species. Campylobacter spp. were isolated on mCCDA agar and confirmed by API Campy (biomereaux, France) and the susceptibility profile determined by Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. A total of 124 market vegetables comprising 59 lettuce and 65 cabbages and 117 farm vegetables made up of 94 lettuce and 23 cabbages were analysed. Prevalence of 41.9% (52/124) and 23.9% (28/117) were respectively documented in market and farm vegetables. Campylobacter jejuni was the dominant species keyed out from market vegetables (61.5%) followed by C. coli (23.0%), C. lari (11.5%) and C. jejuni sub sp. doylei (3.8%). Fifty percent (50%) of farm vegetable isolates were C. jejuni, 25% constituted C. jejuni sub sp. doylei and 21.4%, 3.6% were C. coli and C. lari respectively. All isolates (100%) were multidrug resistant, with highest resistance observed against cephalexin, cefotaxime, ampicillin, erythromycin and chloramphenicol (86-100%), 64-75% against tetracyclines, 32-49% to ciprofloxacin, nalidixic acid and norfloxacin and 57-67% to trimethoprim sulphamethoxazole. Against kanamycin and gentamicin resistance of 4-46% was obtained while no resistance (0%) was observed against imipenem. The results provide baseline information on Campylobacter in vegetables and the possible risk it poses to consumers in the face of high level resistance in the species.
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